A 75-year Broward County resident, legal eagle and longtime mover and shaker in Hollywood, Donald Hulmes has died. He was 90.

Hulmes was attorney for Broward College for nearly two decades, a former Lauderhill city commissioner, attorney for the Broward School Board and member of the South Broward Hospital District’s board of commissioners, as well as president of numerous civic organization, including the Hollywood Rotary Club and Hollywood Jaycees.

Strong, powerful, loud and feisty, he’d ask you your opinion but do it his way, said Hulmes’s daughter, Donna Hulmes Silver, 62, of Davie.

“You didn’t have many give-and-take discussions with him,” Hulmes Silver said. “He had his opinion and his job was to drive his opinion home and convince others.”

A U.S. Navy WWII veteran, Hulmes earned his law degree at the University of Miami in 1951 and practiced law at his firm, Hulmes, Dreiling, Pollock and Weber, in Hollywood and Davie, for 40 years. In recent years, he called Southwest Ranches home.

Her father was “a natural public speaker,” Hulmes Silver said. “He really could mesmerize and capture you.” Childhood memories take her back to seeing her father pacing their home hallway practicing speeches and presentations before he attended school or hospital board meetings.

A father of five who owned one of the first homes in Hollywood Hills, Hulmes was a do-it-yourselfer who taught his children how to do electrical work, wiring, plumbing, tiling and air-conditioning repair. He raised his four daughters to be an engineer, accountant, lawyer and an occupational therapist.

After his only son, Jeffrey, died at 23 in 1979, Hulmes established a scholarship fund in his name with the Broward College Foundation.

Born in Beaver Falls, Pa., Hulmes followed his parents to Hollywood after serving in WWII. As the story goes, he failed to write home with any frequency while in the service. When he returned to his childhood home in Pennsylvania after the war, his parents were no longer there. He was told they had relocated to Florida. Hulmes hitchhiked south to find his family.

A natural storyteller with a penchant for embellishment, he was known to engage in what his children dubbed the “Hulmes Exaggeration Factor.”

“We never would say he lied,” Hulmes Silver said. “Each time a story got told, it would somehow get inflated a little bit more each time.”

Hulmes is survived by three daughters: Donna Hulmes Silver, Lori Hulmes and Beverly Hulmes, and a grandson, Alex Jeffrey Silver.